Whitney Cummings

We haven’t seen the last of Lisa Lampanelli on the Comedy Central Roasts, not according to the “Queen of Mean” herself.

Lampanelli, the 51-year-old insult comic who performs Saturday at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, said she simply skipped the last two Comedy Central Roasts (which “honored” Charlie Sheen in 2011 and Roseanne Barr in 2012) because she has become more selective about who she skewers. She insisted she would return for the right honoree.

“It’s a lot of work,” Lampanelli said over the phone Monday. “I kind of have a gut feeling which ones will be widely viewed and which ones won’t. The Roseanne one wasn’t good or very well-liked. I didn’t do...

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